National Sinosurvey - China 2000

Socio-economic and demographic questions

Topics: residential status; facilities owned (electricity by public grid or by individual generator, running water, hot water, storage for water from well-stream, indoor toilet, gas for cooking / heating, telephone, mobile phone, radio, TV, none); expenditure of the household in several expenditure areas (food and beverages, clothing and footwear, housing, energy, water, household goods / durables, medicine and medical services, communication and transport, cultural, educational and leisure expenses, other commodities and services, insurance, savings); total expenditure; income sources; monthly net household income; possessions (e.g. air conditioner, bank account, bicycle, car, carpet, farm machinery, animals for work or food production, soft bed, woolen blanket, etc.)

Demography: sex; age; marital status; household size and household composition: number of persons aged 15 years and over, number and age of children (0-3, 4-7 and 8-14 years, no children under 15); highest level of education; current employment status, industry; occupation; mother tongue; other language(s).